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Suggestions for summer fun By AARON SHEININ Carolina Life Editor Man, it is going to be a long summer. What's even worse is that the heat is making us think it's August already. Ninety degrees with 90 percent humidity at ten in the muming is not my iaea 01 prcsummer weather. About the only thing you can count on in this state is death, taxes, corruption and rain everyday at 4 p.m. Since I've been here since graduation ajid am not taking class this summer, I've had plenty of time to try and come up with things to do. Here are a few ways I've found are good for wasting time. As always, drink. The favorite pastime of Carolina students will always be there to calm your nerves after a hard day of those tough summer school classes. The bars in Five Points didn't go anywhere while you were gone, they just didn't make as much money. I am sure that they will all be glad to see you walk through their doors again. In this heat, a little inebriation is good to kill the pain. Movies. Everyone knows that every summer, the blockbuster movies come out. Well, this summer might be a little slow, according to movie companies and "Entertainment Tonight," but ? there are still plenty of good films out there to be seen. Besides, what better way to beat the heat then to sit in an airconditioned room on someone else's tab. Several theatres have student discounts where you can go see a movie for around four bucks. And don't think the theatres are doing you some kind of favor by offering "bargain" matinees. Wrong. At the average theatre, the matinee is $3.50. The prime time showing after six p.m. , with a student i.d., if they even ask for it, is four dollars. That fifty cents you're saving could make the down payment on a box of popcorn if you have a good loan from the bank, and if you have reasonable financing you could maybe even get a coke. But otherwise, don't rush yourself trying to make that afternoon show because it's just not worth it. B The idiot box. Basketball coaches may come and go, but really bad television programming will be with us forever. Man, talk about dregs. During the day when most of you are at class, the cable-readv viewer has a plethora of choices. None too exciting. There are always the basic cable staples: MTV, one of the movie channels, ESPN and VH?1 are constantly offering viewing enjoyment. There are also the wide variety of soaps to choose from. Whether your world is turning our your light is guiding, these are the best days of our lives, so there has to be one for you. Sports. If you are brave enough to exercise in the heat, then there is even more for you to do. The P.E. Center is open and there seems to be a softball league for everyone. Also there are some pretty good student discounts on golf around here. For about $15, the club-swinging student can ride 18 at Lindrick or Hidden Valley. Work. You know its getting bad when you are so bored you are even willing to work for a living. Well, take your pick or invent something else to do, just don't go crazy with cabin-fever. Play cards, drink beer, go to a apart? ^ i * i j meni complex s pool ana practice sun-lust, bug your parents for money, throw things at pets, write your congressperson or just laugh at the fact that it is only June 5th. Man, it's going to be a long summer. aaaf**"GAMECOCK ADVERTISING 777-4249 r Summ( BackdrafVpac> By AARON SHEININ Carolina Life Editor It is a dangerous nhenomenon that all the oxygen in the room, leaving 01 gets the slightest breath of oxygen, it i as a backdraft. The movie of the sam< nomenon itself. Ron Howard takes his first step on Hollywood and delivers with one of tl time. Listen to the cast: Robert DeNir Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca DeM Sutherland. With a line-up like that, it Russell and Baldwin play feuding with DeNiro, uncover a murderer's pi out Chicago's fire-fighters for money. 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Although Thelma and Louise is not a fatal film, it is an abysmally stupid one, thanks to implausibilities in the script, and director Scott's tendency to have his main characters lecture the audience through dramatically unnecessary discourses on rape and law. The fact that the film has garnered applause for the latter failing points 1 CHK (X EXCUSES DO ' lllOQ ISSi ir movi ks lots of fire happens when fire flames suck up nly natural gases. When the flame triggers a violent explosion known s name is as powerful as the phethe powerful action-drama side of le best movies I've seen in a long o, Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Lornay, scott uienn ana JJonaia would be hard to make a bad film, fire-fighting brothers who, along ot to kill corrupt people who sold just showed the scenes of the fire, :e of film. If you haven't seen this video. Unless you see the flames i't get the full effect of the camera sate. Most people don't realize all re. 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I This sort of thing happens often 1 enough to make insufferable stu- 1 pidity (not women*s liberation) the 1 primary theme of the movie. The 1 men are stupid, the women are stupid. Thelma is stupid, Louise is 1 stupid. The local cops are stupid, i the FBI is stupid. Indeed, the ca- 1 talyzing premise of the movie is 1 lUJ THE GAMECOCK St is printed, in part, o Do your part and take yc est recycling drop-off loci point is the white dumpi near the corner of Blosson consist (center) and Scott Glenn (right) a im left) and Kevin Casey (second Hawk: Big moi ly DAVID BOWDEN ditor-in-chief For those readers with short attentio ig column in a sentence: Hudson He as an ego the size of Montana to ere f celluloid. The story, which Willis co-wrote, is guess. Willis plays Eddie Hawkins, j mose nickname is wuason hawk, ba imself wrapped up in a ridiculous sto an, an evil billionaire and a machine I The alleged plot is confusing, intel nentertaining. The movie is so overd f the movie, the viewer wants to sma ice. He plays the exact same annoy loonlighting, except less funny. The rest of the cast is totally waste /illis' sidekick. Andie MacDowell i; t's not nearly as funny as it sounds), y that point, who cares? James Cob ins a team of agents named after canc Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernh; vely as the evil billionaire couple be! ave made a good Joker in Batman as us at the same time, but alas, his stn ard, on the other hand, is too bizarre 1 lovie as a whole. In retrospect, it amazes me that thi; mnri^or? rrroanKopl- cA Tfl#?rA mora nrv Liiivi IVUII wi 1 uawivjj mviv nviv nv/ fy that waste. One would think that w ictures could have afforded a real mo Trust me, the only really funny seen reviews. The rest of the movie will 1 lsed. . .and angry at Bruce Willis am ick. Grade: DIning but itupid, because it's implausible. iVhy should Thelma bring along a jistol on the pair's fishing trip, vhen at home she would not touch t, she "just left it in a drawer for fears"? She says she is afraid of ^countering an "escaped psychodller," but why no such fear at iome? All of this is compounded by be apparent absence of morals of Jie two main characters. En route :o Mexico, they commit crime jpon crime as if they are running for their lives, when in fact a mere lie to the police in the first place would have surely have gotten them off the hook for murder. One is hard pressed not to think these two are better off under some kind of supervision, even that of the volved... Student On udent Newspaper n recycled paper. A )ur paper to the near- fi ition. USC's iter on Sumter l\ owm ry|V ency 5* W 9| mmm B My?J re joined by real-life Chicago fire from right) who have supporting ney, little use n spans, let me sum up the following stinks. Bruce Willis obviously ate this incredibly expensive waste i a parody of James Bond pictures, i perpetually smirking master thief die gets out of prison only to find ryline involving the CIA, the Vatihat can turn lead into gold, ligence-insulting and worst of all, one and overacted that by the end ck that cute little smiik off Willis* ingly coy character he played on >d. Danny Aiello has a bit part as s an undercover nun secret agent Willis de?nuns her at the end, but urn plays a weird CIA chief who ly bars (hilarious), ird are funny and irritating respeclind the movie's plot. Grant would he acts both psychotic and humormge performance is wasted. BernEbr words, which also describes the s film cost $50 billion (not pesos, outstanding special effects to jusith that amount of money, Tri-Star vie star for the lead role, les in the movie can be seen in the eave the audience dazed and con1 company for making this crappy ftt.ri.nid male gender they are leaving behind. The film, whatever social commentary it seeks to advance, succeeds only in advancing a kind of loopy feminist rejection of society's attitudes towards women, which serves virtually no artistic end. The movie's final scene nicely encapsulates the qualities of the film itself: it is commercially brave, but artistically meaningless; it seeks the approval of the viewer, but its moral is a sham. "Death before dishonor" does not apply here. This movie has its moments ? it is at times lovely, at times amusing. But the ending plays on all its worst aspects. The end of the movie's plot echoes the demise of the movie. i ganization!!